Presentation of the Chinese Delegation
on Its Proposal
March 15 to 17, 2011
Moscow
The Chinese patent documentation has formed an
important component part of the global prior art
From 1985 to 2010, the number of patent applications in China has
maintained rapid increase.
By December 31, 2010, an
5,000,000
accumulated amount of
4,000,000
patent applications for
3,000,000
inventions and utility models
2,000,000
in China has approached
1,000,000
0
1985
Invention
4.75 million, including
2,330,264 applications for
1990
1995
Utility Model
invention patent and
2000
2005
2010
2,417,384 applications for
utility model.
* Data from SIPO statistics.
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The Chinese patent documentation has formed an
important component part of the global prior art

In 2010, the number of Chinese invention patent
applications reached 390,000, ranking the 2nd among all
countries.

In 2010, the number of Chinese PCT applications
exceeded 12,000, ranking the 4th among all countries.
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The Chinese patent documentation has formed an
important component part of the global prior art
The proportion of the Chinese patent documentation in the total of
global patent documentation has been experiencing a sharp rise.
20.00%
18.2%
According to the
statistical data
16.00%
published by WIPO, the
12.00%
invention patent
applications in China in
8.00%
1985 accounted for
4.00%
0.9% of the world total
0.9%
that year, and then
0.00%
1985
1989
1993
1997
2001
2005
2009
rose to 18.2% in 2009.
The source for these figures is the "WIPO Statistics on Patents", which may be found at:
http://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/statistics/patents/
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The Chinese patent documentation has enriched and
broadened the content and scope of global prior art
Since 2003, the number of Chinese domestic applications has remarkably
exceeded that of foreign ones.
400,000
300,000
200,000
100,000
0
2003
2004
Total
2005
2006
Domestic
2007
2008
2009
2010
Foreign
* Data from SIPO statistics.
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The Chinese patent documentation has enriched and
broadened the content and scope of global prior art
According to the statistics
published by WIPO, the number of
PCT applications from China in the
field of digital communication
amounted to 20% of the global
PCT applications in this area.
PCT Minimum
Chinese
Chinese
basic
Audio-visual
food
environmental
communication
Chinese
civilchemistry
Chinese
Chinese
Chinese
digital
telecommunications
organic
fine
processes
technology
technology
engineering
technology
communication
technology
chemistry
technology
technology
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The Chinese patent documentation has enriched and
broadened the content and scope of global prior art
The technical information contained in most of the Chinese domestic
applications can only be obtained by searching the Chinese patent
documentation.
For PCT international authorities, searching the Chinese
patent documentation will contribute to improvement of both
the quality and completeness of PCT searches.
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The quality of Chinese patent documentation data
processing has been constantly improved
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Chinese patent documentation has been digitized and
can be searched and obtained online
48 foreign IP offices and relevant international organizations, including 9 PCT
ISA and IPEA have already had access to the Chinese patent documents.
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Chinese patent documentation has been digitized and
can be searched and obtained online
Search in English
English Abstracts
Machine-translated
specifications
http://www.sipo.gov.cn/sipo_English/
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Chinese patent documentation has been digitized and
can be searched and obtained online
In 2010, the total
amount of visits to
the official website
of SIPO by foreign
users has reached
77.34 million.
* Data from SIPO statistics.
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Chinese patent documentation has been digitized and
can be searched and obtained online
In 2010, the total
amount of visits to
the patent search
column of the official
website of SIPO by
foreign users is 62.21
million.
* Data from SIPO statistics.
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Rule 34
Minimum Documentation
34.1 Definition
(a) and (b) [No change]
(c) Subject to paragraphs (d) and (e), the “national patent documents” shall be
the following:
(i) [No change]
(ii) the patents issued by the Federal Republic of Germany, the People’s
Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, and the Russian Federation,
(iii) to (vi) [No change]
(vii) the Utility Models of the People’s Republic of China.
(d) [No change]
(e) Any International Searching Authority whose official language, or one of
whose official languages, is not Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian or Spanish is
entitled not to include in its documentation those patent documents of Japan, the
People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the
former Soviet Union as well as those patent documents in the Spanish language
(f) [No change]
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